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Weblogging

Rent my background

David Weinberger, that Pygmalian of weblogging, points to an in-depth investigative report that follows on the now famous Incredible JoBlo conference held at Harvard last week. In the report, the hard hitting news hounds at Better Bad News leave no stone unturned in their relentless search for the truth. Do webloggers have an obligation to report who does or […]

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Weblogging

TBD Tags et al

I’ve been wanting to write something on Technorati Tags, the conference on journalism, blogging, and credibility, as well as a follow-up on LID, and even a little on Wordform (Eh? What’s that?), but all of this deserves a thoughtful discussion, carefully written. Frankly, I’m not in the mood for either thoughtful or careful, so I […]

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RDF Technology Weblogging

A credible coder

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve been silent in this weblog, primarily because I’ve been working on a couple of other projects. I had talked with a good, and wise, friend of mine about this effort and he made a point that I felt was valid: that I should implement those applications or functionalities I’ve […]

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Weblogging

If we could take back anger

If you’ve ever left a comment and then come back to the page, unless you’ve somehow changed your IP address, you’ll see an option to edit your comment. This post-published comment editing feature is one I’ve been testing for several months, without once running into a problem. Yesterday and today I added HTMLEditor for it, […]

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Burningbird Weblogging

This is a disclaimer

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. This is the only disclaimer I will issue from this site. It reads: I will never issue a disclaimer at this site. Again. The discussion rages around us about how we’re in danger of losing our credibility, or our ethics are in question. However a more serious issue is at […]